DARK AGES AMERICA

This is the Blog for MORRIS BERMAN, the author of "Dark Ages America". It includes current publications and random thoughts about U.S. Foreign Policy, including letters and reactions to publications from others.
A cultural historian and social critic, MORRIS BERMAN is the author of "Wandering God" and "The Twilight of American Culture". Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor in sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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January 08, 2014

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Dear Wafers (and Waferettes):
Time to move on to a new post. Only 8 days into the new year, and we are blessed by a few contributions from trolls and buffoons. Ya gotta love 'em; or at least, *I* do. They are what makes this country great.
Of course, I'd love to post something intelligent here, but as in the past, my mind is a wind tunnel; it resembles that of G.W.Bush. What a thought. But I'm up to my eyeballs these days, muchachos: trying to get the pb edn of WAF finished and online on Amazon, and then there's the last chapter of the Japan book...don't ask. Other events you Wafers might be interested in:
-A publisher in Athens wants to translate SSIG into Greek. Greek, I say. Next thing you know, I'll be giving lectures at the Parthenon, between large platters of dolmades. Just call me Zorba.
-The Spanish trans of SSIG, "De paja a oro," should be out by spring. More lectures, but this time punctuated by chiles en nogada.
-Moving rt along: I'll be doing a phone interview (again, on SSIG) on the Judith Regan Show (based in NY; pastrami this time?) the morning of Jan. 25. For those of you who can't hear it live, not to worry, I'll post the link.
-Departure date for Tokyo: April 9. I was also invited down to Vietnam, so I'll spend a few days in Hanoi. I keep wondering if the Jane Fonda Institute of American Studies is still functioning, after all these years.
Sayonara, Chicos; try to stay warm.
-mb

About Me

Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.